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Cracking the DNA Code
On a small island near Washington, D.C., Smithsonian researchers have found a genetic code that could revolutionize botany
August 2009 |
By Megan Gambino
High Hopes for a New Kind of Gene
Scientists believe that microRNA may lead to breakthroughs in diagnosing and treating cancer
July 2009 |
By Sylvia Pagán Westphal
Evolution in Black and White
The alternative color forms of some animals are providing new insights into how animals adapt and evolve
February 10, 2009 |
By Sean B. Carroll
The Perils of Bird-Plane Collisions
When airlines want to investigate dangerous bird strikes against planes, they turn to the head of the Smithsonian’s Feather Identification Lab
January 16, 2009 |
By Sarah Zielinski
Gene Therapy in a New Light
A husband-and-wife team's experimental genetic treatment for blindness is renewing hopes for a controversial field of medicine
January 2009 |
By Jocelyn Kaiser
When Will There Be Herds of Mammoths?
With news that the woolly mammoth genome has been sequenced, our science blogger asks about resuscitating the extinct species
November 20, 2008 |
By Smithsonian Magazine
The 'Secret Jews' of San Luis Valley
In Colorado, the gene linked to a virulent form of breast cancer found mainly in Jewish women is discovered in Hispanic Catholics
October 2008 |
By Jeff Wheelwright
How Breast Cancer Genes Work
Though we may talk of cancer as one disease, skin cancer has little in common with pancreatic cancer and breast cancer is something else entirely
October 2008 |
By Sarah Zielinski
Clan-Do Spirit
A genealogical surprise led the author to ask: What does it take to be one of the family?
September 2008 |
By Jake Halpern
On the Evolutionary Gold Mine Down Under
What the platypus and other Australian species reveal about genetics
August 01, 2008 |
By Dina Modianot-Fox
Personal Genome Project
These holidays, give the people who have everything the one thing they don't: a map of their own DNA
December 12, 2007 |
By Eric Jaffe
How to Make a Dodo
Biologist Beth Shapiro has figured out a recipe for success in the field of ancient DNA research
October 2007 |
By Andrew Curry
Family Ties
African Americans use scientific advances to trace their roots
February 01, 2007 |
By Whitney Dangerfield
Neanderthal Man
Svante Paabo has probed the DNA of Egyptian mummies and extinct animals. Now he hopes to learn more about what makes us tick by decoding the DNA of our evolutionary cousins.
October 2006 |
By Steve Olson
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
A Nobel laureate holds forth on flies, genes and women in science.
June 2006 |
By Amy Crawford
Medical Sleuth
To prosecutors, it was child abuse - an Amish baby covered in bruises, but Dr. D. Holmes Morton had other ideas
February 2006 |
By Tom Shachtman
35 Who Made a Difference: James Watson
After DNA, what could he possibly do for an encore?
November 01, 2005 |
By Smithsonian magazine
35 Who Made a Difference: Edward O. Wilson
Vindicated for his controversial sociobiology? Yes. Satisfied? Not yet
November 01, 2005 |
By Robert Wright
Building A Better Banana
It is the world's No. 1 fruit, with millions of people dependent on it to stay alive. Now diseases threaten many varieties, prompting a search for new hybrids of the "smile of nature"
October 2005 |
By Craig Canine
Twin Science
Researchers make an annual pilgrimage to Twinsburg, Ohio, to study inherited traits
November 2004 |
By Mark Wheeler
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